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Looking to escape? Here are two recent trips local readers took to the Sorrento Peninsula and Perugia in Italy. Check them out, then find more reader travel ...

The West Coast premiere of “Wish You Were Here” at South Coast Repertory represents a homecoming of sorts for author Sanaz Toossi. A first-generation Iranian American who grew up in Orange ...

to below the waves with sharks, CNN asked these brave few to grab their cameras, document their experience, and show us their world. What came back was inspiring and had us all wishing we were there.

Julia Stiles makes her directorial debut in a brilliantly warm and romantic film based on the bestselling novel, Wish You Were Here. Isabelle Forman, Mena Massoud, Jennifer Grey and Kelsey Grammer ...